Got Drainage?

A couple weeks ago we got the opportunity to test out the new driveway. It started raining hard. What better way to check the new drainage. You’ll remember that the garbarge truck tried to turn around in our driveway and sunk down about a foot and had to be dragged out by two tow trucks.

We dug out a bit of the driveway and put in some drainage pipe with no guarantee that it would work. So when it started raining I decided to check out if any water was coming out the drain.

Before the driveway was fixed the water would pool in one section right under where we put the drain.

And here’s the drainage pipe. Yep, it’s working.

I’ve gotten alot of comments regarding the stones we put around the perimeter of the house. Why did we do that? Mostly for drainage reasons. If you remember we dug out the foundation when we bought the house and put down some drainage pipe to hopefully keep the basement dry. It’s been working GREAT!!

Then we put dirt on top of the drain and then about 6 inches of stone to help facilitate the drainage. The stone also helps prevent splashing against the house. Both the foundation drainage and stone are very helpful when you have a house without gutters. Gutters are an entire topic I will address in another post.

Outtakes:

After our family celebrated with the rest of NY on the passage of the Marriage Equality act, we set off for a few days of R&R. Here’s snap of the boys doing a little fishing.